Systems and Methods for Secure Playback of Encrypted Elementary Bitstreams

2. The playback device of claim 1, wherein the cipher comprises an Advanced Encryption System (AES) cipher.

3. The playback device of claim 2, wherein the AES cipher is configured in Electronic Codebook (ECB) mode.

4. The playback device of claim 2, wherein the AES cipher is configured using chaining.

5. The playback device of claim 2, wherein the AES cipher is configured using a feedback loop.

6. The playback device of claim 1, wherein the encrypted portion of the video frame data comprises video frame data that encodes a frame header.

7. The playback device of claim 1, wherein an unencrypted portion of the video frame data comprises video frame data that encodes a frame header.

8. The playback device of claim 1, wherein the playback application is further for causing the set of one or more processors to stream the container file.

9. The playback device of claim 1, wherein the playback application is further capable of causing the set of one or more processors to perform a step of inserting an MPEG4 reserved start code identifier in the buffer prior to the DRM information.